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Review – Backstage Play
In today’s Gleaner newspaper, Keiran King delivers an extremely critical review of Karl Hart’s Backstage play. The downfall of Karl Hart’s fourth play is that the odds aren’t long enough. In Backstage, a fictional cast and crew take a show from script to stage. We see a reading of the script, a number of rehearsals, some [...]
Continue reading...Brian Heap Responds To Keiran King Regarding Appropriate Behaviour
Friday, May 14, 2010
In today’s Gleaner newspaper, Brian Heap (of the University Players) has issued a stinging response to Keiran King’s own recent stinging review of the Appropriate Behaviour play. According to Heap, “King’s attempts to appear dispassionate in his latest outing as reviewer (in The Gleaner of May 10) fail most miserably when he made a distinctly [...]
Continue reading...Tick Tock Play Review
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
In today’s Gleaner newspaper, Keiran King reviews Owen ‘Blakka’ Ellis’ “Tick Tock” play. “The dramatic arts haven’t been this exciting in 25 years … Tick Tock is an experiment that eschews character and narrative. Instead, an ensemble of 12 (hours on a clock?) plays different Jamaican archetypes, while reciting long-form poetry. Set in the ruins of [...]
Continue reading...Media – The Plumber Review
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
In today’s Gleaner newspaper, Keiran King gives a stinging review of the latest roots play to hit the local entertainment scene, The Plumber. “The Plumber is, ostensibly, about a policeman suspecting and then uncovering his wife in an affair. Never mind that. It’s really about bringing some familiar characters onto the stage, characters from prior Stages [...]
Continue reading...Media – Puppy Love Review
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Keiran King has reviewed the Puppy Love play in today’s Gleaner newspaper: One is a fluke, two a coincidence, three a trend. For those keeping count, Patrick Brown’s newly remounted play, Puppy Love, is (at least) the fourth recent Jamaican production to feature a May-December romance. (That’s where one partner is way younger than the other, [...]
Continue reading...White Witch Is On At Fairfield Theatre In Montego Bay
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
‘White Witch’, is the latest offering from the Fairfield Theatre in Montego Bay. On Saturday, February 6, it enjoyed a packed house for its gala world premiere, and it reportedly left many patrons offering rousing spontaneous applause, and singing high praises for the overall quality. It will continue, on weekends only, until some time next [...]
Continue reading...Cindy – The Modern Jamaican Cinderella
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
On January 7, the hilarious musical production – “Cindy” – opens at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts on January 7. Theatre audiences are said to be eagerly awaiting the return of good family entertainment, which Campion alumna and “Cindy” director Cathi Levy of Little People & Teen Players Club fame, is well-known [...]
Continue reading...Coming Soon – White Witch
Monday, December 28, 2009
The much-anticipated White Witch play, with lead actress Maylynne Walton (of the television show, The Blackburns), Noel Kerr and Peter Abrikian, will have its gala world premiere on Saturday, February 6, 2010 at the Fairfield Theatre in Montego Bay. White Witch is directed by Douglas Prout, and was originally written by Jane Crichton, with additional material [...]
Continue reading...Me and Mi Chapsie Review
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Today’s Gleaner newspaper features a review of ‘Me and Mi Chapsie’ by Keiran King. Thinking of the world as a stage is a good place to start. In Aston Cooke’s world, to be Jamaican is to be a performer. His new play, Me and Mi Chapsie, is a humorous treatise on that idea. The chapsie is [...]
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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